As of September 6th, 2007, we have been online for 8 months. During that time, it has been a labor of love adding web hosts, verifying reviews, and maintaining this site.

Near the end of April, we went through and discovered there was 8 web hosts that went out of business during this short time frame. I don’t think we had any idea how volatile web hosting really is on new startups.

As of today, May 6th, 2008, we have 561 web hosting reviews and 344 active web hosts indexed. This is way more than we expected for our first eight months. Thanks everyone who has submitted their reviews!

During this time, we also launched a sister site dedicated to virtual private server web hosts at VPS Host Reviews. Of course, we don’t expect nearly as many reviews there since VPS popularity is still warming up. However, we saw the need for a dedicated VPS review site, so we went ahead and launched it.

At this time, we would like to hear from you. Whether you have interest in web hosting or own a web hosting company, we would like to hear what you have to say about our site. Submit suggestions, questions, or other comments at our contact us form here. We will respond to everyone that asks questions, promise!

Want to help us? Please submit a review of your web host. We’d appreciate it!

Matt Heaton, president and founder of BlueHost, recently announced the launch of SimpleScripts.com.

SimpleScripts is a one-click installer of the web’s most popular applications for Blogs, Photo Albums, Online Stores, Forums, Wikis, and more. No technical experience is required!

SimpleScripts Smart Installer automatically checks to make sure your webhost is compatible. Version control lets you select a script that fits your needs. SimpleScripts works with almost any web site that uses CPanel or Plesk.

Although this service originally launched on Bluehost and Hostmonster, it is not exclusive to our hosting service only. SimpleScripts itself is a hosted application so web hosting companies can license it and integrate into their own control panels for the benefit of their users. It isn’t even tied to Cpanel only. It will work with VPS and dedicated servers, as well as other control panels such as Plesk.

Visit SimpleScripts

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Earlier this month, HostICan started a spring web hosting special offering you 20% off any web hosting plan when you order hosting for 12 months or more.

But did you know our special coupon will save you much more?

Instead of saving 20% on HostICan, save $50 instantly using coupon Take50-12. Use this coupon on any HostICan annual plan and you’ll save nearly 53% off!

During the order process, you’ll notice HostICan automatically enters “springtime-12″ in the coupon code field. All you need to do is replace that code with Take50-12 and you’ll be given a whopping $50 off instantly.

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Lunarpages Supports SSH on Shared Hosting Plans

Lunarpages has started to support SSH/shell access on our shared hosting plans. New clients can specify if they want this as an addon when signing up and current clients can drop in an e-mail to support@lunarpages.com and we’ll get you hooked up. Because we know not everyone wants to be on a server that allows SSH access, we are putting SSH customers on separate servers, so everybody’s happy!

Windows Server 2008 Support at LPDedicated

Now with our Windows dedicated servers, you can pick between Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 giving our dedicated hosting clients and customers even more choice when it comes to getting the hosting setup that is right for them.

New LP Quicksite Release! - Learn About LP Quicksite Here

We keep improving LP Quicksite to help you guys make better websites, so check out our advanced Quicksite demo for the new blogging tools and templates, or see our featured article on Quicksite’s new features.

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Lunarpages has gone unlimited! Where Lunarpages used to have a limit on the Basic hosting plan and Business hosting plan for ten add-on domains per plan, they have dropped that for one and all. You can now host an unlimited number of websites on your Basic or Business Lunarpages hosting plans.

Do All Lunarpages Accounts Get the Upgrade? Yes!

This offer is good for one and all that is hosting with Lunarpages and also new accounts. No matter if you have been with them 3 years or 3 weeks, you will be getting this special Lunarpages perk. This comes on the heels of them bumping up the disk space and bandwidth limits of the Basic and Business hosting plans too. Consider Lunarpages the web host that keeps on giving.

What is an add-on domain?

An add-on domain is a domain that points to a folder within your web folder. An add on domain allows you to run a separate web site to your primary domain. When you create an add on domain, it makes a folder in your public_html folder and you upload the site content into that folder. So essentially you are running 2 or more separate sites, separate content, off one account using the same control panel. Add-on domains also allow you to create email addresses for that additional domain name.

What Can I Do With Unlimited Lunarpages Add-on Domains?

Now where and why does this become handy? Well, now you can add more domains in on one hosting plan. That means more perks for you which we don’t mind giving out because we love each and every one of our customers. Now it might take a while before the upgrades are pushed out to every single server, but give us a few days and we will get the upgrade out to one and all.

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HostNine, a leader in Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting and Dedicated Servers, today unveiled the latest version of its popular Reseller Central control panel, enabling resellers to setup and manage client accounts from a single, robust interface. Reseller Central v2.1 introduces a variety of important new features, including support for managing for Windows Hosting and Linux Hosting accounts.

With today’s release, resellers can now take advantage of new features designed to help them grow their businesses. In addition to cross-platform support for provisioning and managing Plesk 8.3-based Windows accounts and cPanel 11-based Linux accounts, Reseller Central also saves time in a number of areas. Namely, a fully restructured DNS editor system allows seamless edits of DNS settings, and account management APIs offer greater control over hosted accounts.

Providing innovative management tools for our resellers has been a strategic goal of ours for many months, and with today’s announcement, we are excited to bring our reseller offerings to the next level,” said Ben Gabler, Operations Manager, HostNine. “We continue to see resellers as an integral component of our business, and will continue to develop software that allows them to expand their businesses in a variety of ways, in terms of both value-added features and platform support.

Reseller Central also offers integration with WHCMS, a premier billing and automation gateway. HostNine resellers are provided with a free license of the software, valued at $249.95.

HostNine engineers are currently developing the next iteration of Reseller Center, version 2.3, to be released in the coming months. The next version will add support for integrated data protection and Windows Server 2008.

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Matt Heaton, owner of BlueHost, has recently announced that their explosive web hosting company will surpass 850,000 domains hosted within the next couple of weeks. Really amazing!

Matt Heaton had this to say about this event:

We are getting VERY close to 850,000 domains hosted on BlueHost, HostMonster, and FastDomain. I think we have about a week to go. I am simply amazed at the number of domains added every day. I am excited to see the incredible things that people create and host with us. Everyday I am shown different sites on our network. The variety is astounding as is the amount of traffic pushed. Everyday tens of millions of visitors pass through our network on the way to view a site we host. We now host about 1.4% of all domains on the entire internet. That is an impressive number when you consider the size of the WHOLE internet

Thanks again for all you do and for sticking with us during this time of growth. We are constantly working on improving our organization and technical ability - I hope it shows for most of our customers!

This is really an amazing announcement. We are very proud to recommend BlueHost to our visitors since we’ve seen the growth and their handling of their expansions.

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